Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 659031, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/659031
Case Report

Myonecrosis in Sickle Cell Anemia—Overlooked and Underdiagnosed

Nishant Tageja,1 Marius Racovan,2 Jason Valent,3 and Jeffrey Zonder3

1Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
2Division of Rheumatology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
3Division of Hematology/Oncology, Wayne State University/Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI 48201, USA

Received 8 November 2009; Accepted 3 February 2010

Academic Editor: Pierre W. Wijermans

Copyright © 2010 Nishant Tageja et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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